Joseph Boyle wrote: > > Yes, the software business is largely about dealing with the BADLY WRITTEN, > the TRIVIAL, and the BRAIN-DEAD. Your point?
I see we are still working on naming utf-8 formats with and without the bom. I find these quite acceptable, assuming you mean: utf8-badly-written- bom may or may not be there, we dont know. utf8-trivial - never has a bom utf8-brain-dead - always has a bom. Yes, works fine. I would like to rename notepad too, while we are at it. Let's name it for always having a bom. I think the naming conventions apply a subtle pressure on programmers to converge towards a single format as well. Afterall who wants to announce they are working with a badly-written of brain-dead file format when they could be working with a trival one. This approach might even fix lf/cr if applied there. Line endings: badly-written, brain-dead (you pick lf or lf/cr I don't care.) trivial: Unicode line-separator ;-) -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:Tex@;XenCraft.com Xen Master http://www.i18nGuy.com XenCraft http://www.XenCraft.com Making e-Business Work Around the World -------------------------------------------------------------
